Likely D. linearis based on location/altitude.
Lobb's Aquatic Buttercup (Ranunculus lobbii) is an uncommon, native, annual, aquatic plant in the Buttercup (Ranunculaceae) family that grows in various types of shallow-water habitat, including vernal pools and forest ponds. Submerged stems are floating, 20 - 80 cm (up to 32 inches) long. Flowers are white, 1cm wide, 5 petals and 5 sepals, with many stamens and pistils in the center. Peak bloom time March-May.
Conservation Status: 4.2 in California, US (CNPS) California Native Plant Society, California Rare Plant Rank 4.2: Plants of Limited Distribution - Fairly threatened in California.
CNPS Rare Plant Inventory: https://rareplants.cnps.org/Plants/Details/1414
Monterey County Wildflowers (photographic guide of wildflowers, shrubs and trees) https://montereywildflowers.com/ranunculaceae-buttercup/
"This rare aquatic plant has small 5-petaled white flowers, and both floating and submersed leaves. The floating leaves are deeply 3-parted and occasionally notched. The submersed leaves are generally 2- or 3-dissected into threadlike segments. This is distinguished from the more common Whitewater Crowfoot (Ranunculus aquatilis,) by having a glabrous receptacle, rather than a bristly one."
Jepson eFlora (with botanical illustration): https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=40925
Plants of Monterey County: an Illustrated Field Key, 2nd edition, Matthews and Mitchell ,2015 (2300+ species), 274-275.
Monterey County Wildflowers: a Field Guide, Yeager and Mitchell, 2016 (950+ species with photos), p. 257.
Flora of Fort Ord: Monterey County, California , David Styer, 2019 (includes peak bloom times), p. 182.
5-minute video of Fort Ord Flora and Fauna, produced by David Styer: https://fortordcleanup.com/archives/2020/natural-treasures-of-fort-ord-90-amazing-photographs/
Fort Ord A Love Story, Dorothy E. Denning, 2024 (includes 1,000+ color photos) (species not listed)
Endangered Species Fact Sheets (species in Monterey County) http://www.elkhornsloughctp.org/factsheet/ (species not listed)
One of the tiniest of the clovers-- growing in a grassy area at edge of live oak woodland. The stipules (where stem meets leaf base) have many bristle-tipped teeth (hand lens is helpful).
Link to better photo of Santa Cruz Clover: pending
Santa Cruz Clover (Trifolium buckwestiorum) is a rare, endemic, endangered, very small, annual, glabrous Clover with an involucre. It is Endemic (limited) to a few coastal California counties. It is endangered due to it's rare occurrence and habitat loss due to development in key locations. Involucre lobes are sharply toothed or deeply cut. Calyx lobes are lanceolate, finely toothed, and bristle-tipped. Corolla is 4-6mm, pink to white in color. Stipules have many bristle-tipped teeth. Peak bloom time: April-May.
California Rare Plant Rank: 1B.1 (Rare, threatened, or endangered in CA and elsewhere).
Santa Cruz Clover (Trifolium buckwestiorum) Endangered Species Fact Sheets http://www.elkhornsloughctp.org/factsheet/factsheet.php?SPECIES_ID=33
"Global Distribution: Endemic to central and northern California (Monterey, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Sonoma, and Mendocino counties)
Key Characteristics: It is a rare, endemic, "small, glabrous, decumbent to ascending annual herb; leaves cauline, stipules with many bristle-tipped teeth, leaflets 3, 0.5–1.5 cm long, elliptic to obovate, finely serrate; inflorescence head-like, involucrate, 8–12 mm diameter, 5–many-flowered; involucre bowl-shaped, irregularly toothed, serrate; calyx tube 4–5 mm long, 10-veined, lobes < tube, terminated by a 1–1.5-mm-long bristle and with 3–5 lateral teeth; corolla pinkish white, 6–7 mm long, the keel darker. First heads enclosed in stipules, reduced, appearing cleistogamous. Small plants of the more common Trifolium microcephalum are superficially similar, but invariably have entire calyx lobes.
Reference Populations: Pogonip Park (Santa Cruz County); Fort Ord National Monument (Monterey County).
Habitat: Ranging from vernally moist swales to saturated, clay-rich upland soils in coastal prairie, vernally moist dune hollows, and edges of humic-soil meadow openings in forest; 105-710 m."
Endangered Species Fact Sheets http://www.elkhornsloughctp.org/factsheet/factsheet.php?SPECIES_ID=33
Calflora lists 75 records of this species in California (as of 5/17/24) https://www.calflora.org/app/taxon?crn=8063 and 30 records in Monterey County: https://www.calflora.org/entry/observ.html?track=m#srch=t&lpcli=t&taxon=Trifolium+buckwestiorum&chk=t&cch=t&cnabh=t&inat=r&cc=MNT
Jepson eFlora https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=47057
Plants of Monterey County: an Illustrated Field Key, 2nd edition, Matthews and Mitchell, 2015, pp. 170-171.
Flora of Fort Ord: Monterey County, California, David Styer, 2019, p. 119.
Monterey County Wildflowers– a photographic guide https://montereywildflowers.com/fabaceae-clover-inv/
Endangered Species Fact Sheets (85+ species in Monterey County) http://www.elkhornsloughctp.org/factsheet/
Wildflowers of California: A Field Guide, California Native Plant Society, 2024 (color photos, 600+ pages) (Non-native Clovers not listed, only native)
Indigenous people ate native Clovers, both cooked and raw. 95 traditional uses are described here: Native American Ethnobotany: Traditional Native Plant Uses (medicines, foods, fibers, tools): http://naeb.brit.org/uses/search/?string=Trifolium
Leaf Terminology: Simple Diagrams/Definitions: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Leaf_morphology.svg
Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary, 2nd ed., by James G. Harris and M. W. Harris, 2022.
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Irene's Clovers (Trifolium) observations on INaturalist, worldwide: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?taxon_id=51876&user_id=aparrot1
Indigenous people ate native Clovers, both cooked and raw. 95 traditional uses are described here: Native American Ethnobotany: Traditional Native Plant Uses (medicines, foods, fibers, tools): http://naeb.brit.org/uses/search/?string=Trifolium
INaturalist Project: Trifolium (Clovers) of California: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/trifolium-clovers-of-california
"56 species of Trifolium are known to grow in California. Worldwide, the Trifolium genus comprises 300 species of flowering plants originating in Europe."
Trifolium (Clover) are in the Fabaceae (Pea) family. Trifolium has 3 leaflets per leaf and dense heads of small flowers. Clover are divided into 2 groups: those WITHOUT involucre and those WITH involucre (bracts at the base of the head which are fused to form a cup, bowl or wheel under the flower head).
Jepson eFlora Key to Trifolium: https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_keys.php?key=10383
Jepson Taxon Page for Trifolium: https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=10383
Irene's "working notes" for Trifolium in CCo (Central Coast of CA), using Jepson eFlora Filter Keys:
Trifolium (Clovers) is divided into 2 groups: those WITH involucre (bowl-shaped cup holding the flowers), and those WITHOUT involucre.
In CCo, Jepson filter key search lists the following 12 Trifolium species WITH Involucre:
Jepson eFlora https://keybase.rbg.vic.gov.au/keys/show/4182?filter_id=55b17b2b4727a
Trifolium barbigerum
Trifolium depauperatum var. truncatum
Trifolium hydrophilum
Trifolium microdon
Trifolium obtusiflorum
Trifolium polyodon
Trifolium trichocalyx
Trifolium variegatum var. geminiflorum
Trifolium variegatum var. major
Trifolium variegatum var. variegatum
Trifolium willdenovii
Trifolium wormskioldii
20 WITHOUT Involucre in CCo:
Trifolium albopurpureum
Trifolium amoenum
Trifolium angustifolium
Trifolium arvense
Trifolium bifidum var. bifidum
Trifolium bifidum var. decipiens
Trifolium campestre
Trifolium cernuum
Trifolium ciliolatum
Trifolium dubium
Trifolium glomeratum
Trifolium gracilentum
Trifolium hirtum
Trifolium incarnatum
Trifolium macraei
Trifolium pratense
Trifolium repens
Trifolium resupinatum
Trifolium striatum
Trifolium vesiculosum
Trifolium on Fort Ord National Monument, CA, per David Styer: "Fort Ord, which is roughly the size of San Francisco, has 33 species of wild Trifolium, 17 of which are native, and 5 of which are California endemics! . . ."
Flora of Fort Ord: Monterey County, California, David Styer, 2019, pp. 117-125.
Calflora lists the following 4 native Trifolium in Monterey County, CA, that has an affinity to SERPENTINE soils:
Trifolium gracilentum, Pin point clover
Trifolium fucatum, Bull clover
Trifolium microcephalum, Small-headed Clover
Trifolium willdenovii, Tomcat clover
Calfora https://www.calflora.org/entry/psearch.html?namesoup=trifolium&countylist=MNT&serpentine=t&plantcomm=any&format=photos&orderby=taxon
What is Serpentine Soil? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpentine_soil
Irene's (aparrot1) Profile Page on INaturalist listing Nature Resources (includes online references with links) for Plants, Birds, Fungi, Lepidoptera, Arachnids, Reptiles, Amphibians, Marine Life, Plant Galls, and more: https://www.inaturalist.org/people/3188668
Purple Sanicle (Sanicula bipinnatifida) A.k.a. Shoe Buttons. Native, perennial plant in the Carrot (Apiaceae) family. Leaves are twice pinnatifid and sharply toothed. Flowers are spherical, reddish-purple, with prominently exerted stamens. Peak bloom time: March-April. Fruits are hooked. Indigenous people made an infusion of the leaves for snakebites.
Native American Ethnobotany: A database of plants used as drugs, foods, dyes, fibers, and more, by native Peoples of North America. http://naeb.brit.org/ and http://naeb.brit.org/uses/search/?string=Sanicula+bipinnatifida
Plants of Monterey County: an Illustrated Field Key, 2nd edition, Matthews and Mitchell, 2015, pp. 28-29.
Jepson eFlora https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=43166
Flora of Fort Ord: Monterey County, California, David Styer, 2019, p. 25.
Monterey County Wildflowers: a Field Guide, Yeager and Mitchell, 2016, p. 146.
Monterey County Wildflowers– a photographic guide https://montereywildflowers.com/apiaceae-sanicle/
5-minute video of Fort Ord Flora and Fauna, produced by David Styer: https://fortordcleanup.com/archives/2020/natural-treasures-of-fort-ord-90-amazing-photographs/
Oregon Flora https://oregonflora.org/taxa/index.php?taxon=8135
(The) Monterey Pine Forest: Coastal California's Living Legacy, 2nd. ed, The Monterey Pine Forest Watch, 2018. (Excellent book).
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Sanicles (Genus Sanicula). Native, perennial plants in the Carrot (Apiaceae) family. Stems spreading to erect. Leaves simple or compound, ternately, palmately, or pinnately lobed or dissected. Blades orbicular to ovate in outline, margins entire or toothed. Flower heads are small, simple umbels, unlike Tauschia (Umbrellaworts) that have compound umbrels.
Jepson eFlora Key to Sanicles: https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_keys.php?key=10218
Plants of Monterey County: an Illustrated Field Key, 2nd edition, Matthews and Mitchell, 2015, pp. 28-29.
Flora of Fort Ord: Monterey County, California, David Styer, 2019, pp. 25-26.
Monterey County Wildflowers: a Field Guide, Yeager and Mitchell, 2016, p. 287.
Monterey County Wildflowers– a photographic guide https://montereywildflowers.com/apiaceae-sanicle/
Oregon Flora https://oregonflora.org/taxa/index.php?taxon=1394
Seen only in one small sandy wash, with moderate but not extreme moisture exposure judging from location
Contra Costa Goldfields are often seen together with the Hickman’s Popcornflowers along the rim of receding vernal pools on Fort Ord National Monument.
Link to confirmed observations nearby: flowering https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/169113156 and fruiting with black seeds: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/117937822
Contra Costa Goldfields (Lasthenia conjugens) Rare, native/endemic, annual plant that grows < 40 cm (up to 15 inches) tall in seasonal vernal pools and moist grasslands. It is distinguished by the number of its hairy phyllaries (12–18) that are fused for less than half of their length. It has 6–13 ray flowers. Peak bloom time: March-June. Leaves are linear and entire or occasionally pinnately lobed. It can be found locally in great numbers in vernal pools growing together with Hickman’s Popcornflower (Plagiobothrys chorisianus var. hickmanii), another rare vernal pool plant. Fruit: < 1.5 mm, club-shaped, glabrous.
Conservation Status: 1B.1 in California, US (CNPS).
The back cover of D. Styer's book shows a carpet of Contra Costa Goldfields (Lasthenia conjugens) growing in a drying vernal pool in Butterfly Valley (see key to places in Fort Ord, p. 1.)
Flora of Fort Ord: Monterey County, California, David Styer, 2019, p. 48.
Endangered Species Fact Sheets (species in Monterey County) http://www.elkhornsloughctp.org/factsheet/factsheet.php?SPECIES_ID=92
Excerpt: " Common Names - Contra Costa Goldfields
Family - Asteraceae (Sunflower Family)
Federal Status - federal endangered
(June 1997). Habitat: Vernal pools in areas with marine climatic influence; gen < 125 m. Key Characteristics: Annual herb < 4 dm tall, stems simple or freely branched above, glabrous or +/- hairy; leaves < 8 cm long, linear, entire or pinnately lobed, glabrous; involucre 6–10 mm high, hemispheric to obconic, phyllaries 12–18, fused less than half their length (all other taxa in our region have phyllaries fused > 2/3ds their length); receptacle dome-shaped or obconic, densely hairy; corolla yellow, ray flowers 6–13(18), the rays 5–10 mm, disk flowers many, style tips triangular."
Jepson eFlora https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=3729
CNPS Rare Plant Inventory: https://rareplants.cnps.org/Plants/Details/951
Flora of North America http://beta.floranorthamerica.org/Lasthenia_conjugens
Plants of Monterey County: an Illustrated Field Key, 2nd edition, Matthews and Mitchell, 2015, p. 69.
Monterey County Wildflowers https://montereywildflowers.com/asteraceae-sunflower1/
Monterey County Wildflowers: a Field Guide, Yeager and Mitchell, 2016, p. 301
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In general:
5-minute video of Fort Ord Flora and Fauna, produced by David Styer: https://fortordcleanup.com/archives/2020/natural-treasures-of-fort-ord-90-amazing-photographs/
Fort Ord A Love Story, Dorothy E. Denning, 2024 (includes 1,000+ color photos)
Endangered Species Fact Sheets (species in Monterey County) http://www.elkhornsloughctp.org/factsheet/
CNPS Rare Plant Inventory: https://rareplants.cnps.org/Home/
Santa Lucia mts.
Dwarf Orthocarpus (Triphysaria pusilla) COMPARED TO Triphysaria versicolor:
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Dwarf Orthocarpus (Triphysaria pusilla) A.k.a. Dwarf Owl's Clover or Little Owl's Clover. Native, hairy, hemi-parasitic plant in the Orobranchaceae (Broomrape) family that grows up to 20cm (8 inches) tall in grasslands, lawns, pastures, roadsides, edges of vernal pools, and woodlands . The foliage is green, turning reddish-brown. The tiny flowers are almost invisible to the naked eye, but under a hand lens, there is a pouch that is dark red on top with lower lips that are also dark red. Peak bloom time: March-April.
Link to confirmed observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/157013964
Flora of Fort Ord: Monterey County, California, David Styer, 2019, p. 158.
Jepson eFlora https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=47296
Calflora (with species distribution map) https://www.calflora.org/app/taxon?crn=8133
Flora of North America http://floranorthamerica.org/Triphysaria_pusilla
Plants of Monterey County: an Illustrated Field Key, 2nd edition, Matthews and Mitchell, 2015, pp. 226-227.
Monterey County Wildflowers: a Field Guide, Yeager and Mitchell, 2016, p. 111.
Monterey County Wildflowers– a photographic guide https://montereywildflowers.com/orobanchaceae-xcastilleja/
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COMPARED TO (less common)
Yellow-beak False Owl's-Clover (Triphysaria versicolor) A.k.a. Smooth Owl's Clover, or Yellow Owl's Clover, or Yellowbeak Owl's Clover. Native, green- to yellow-brown, generally glabrous, hemi-parasitic plant in the Orobanchaceae (Broomrape) family that grows 10--60 cm (up to 24 inches) tall.
There are 3 subspecies listed on Calflora. (The subspecies Triphysaria versicolor subsp. versicolor grows on Fort Ord) Triphysaria versicolor subsp. versicolor grows in grasslands, vernally moist seeps to dry grassy meadows, headlands, rock outcrops, and coastal prairies. Corolla is white fading to rose-pink with age, beak is white or rose pink, and the plant is purple-dotted. Peak bloom time: March-April.
Flora of Fort Ord: Monterey County, California, David Styer, 2019, p. 158.
(The subspecies Triphysaria versicolor subsp. versicolor grows on Fort Ord)
Link to confirmed observation of Triphysaria versicolor subsp. versicolor nearby: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2833685
Jepson eFlora https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=47297 and
Jepson eFlora Triphysaria versicolor subsp. versicolor https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=53282
Calflora (with Triphysaria versicolor distribution map) https://www.calflora.org/app/taxon?crn=8134
Calflora, Triphysaria versicolor subsp. versicolor https://www.calflora.org/app/taxon?crn=8136
Flora of North America http://floranorthamerica.org/Triphysaria_versicolor_subsp._versicolor
Plants of Monterey County: an Illustrated Field Key, 2nd edition, Matthews and Mitchell, 2015, p. 225.
Monterey County Wildflowers: a Field Guide, Yeager and Mitchell, 2016. (species not listed)
Monterey County Wildflowers– a photographic guide https://montereywildflowers.com (species not listed)
Each plant had 1 tubular flower at terminal end of 3-4 inch tall pedicel. 4-6 plants observed near Chamise shrubs and other other wildflowers.
Oneflower Broomrape (Aphyllon purpureum) Formerly called Naked Broomrape (Orobanche uniflora). It has a variety of names in different references. It is a native, small, root-parasitic plant in the Broomrape (Orobanchaceae) family that grows 3.5–18cm (up to 7 inches) tall in moist soils. It is parasitic on members of sunflower and saxifrage families. There are no leaves on single stem that bears one purple flower with orange filaments. Peak bloom time: April-July.
Monterey County Wildflowers:
"Naked Broomrape – Aphyllon purpureum (formerly Orobanche uniflora) grows in "moist places, parasitic on members of sunflower and saxifrage families. It is a true parasite, without photosynthetic leaves. It has 1-3 beautiful, small bluish-purple flowers, on pedicels 3–12 cm long. Most of the plant’s stem is underground. This species generally has pale purple (occasionally deep violet) to yellowish flowers. [Note: All native California members of the Orobanche genus have been moved to the Aphyllon genus (see Jepson eFlora Revision 5, December 2017). It is now considered that A. uniflora is not found in California and that California plants previously treated as Orobanche uniflora did not belong to that species.]"
Monterey County Wildflowers https://montereywildflowers.com/orobanchaceae-xcastilleja/
Jepson eFlora with botanical illustration: https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=103312
Calflora https://www.calflora.org/entry/observ.html?track=m#srch=t&lpcli=t&taxon=Aphyllon+purpureum&chk=t&cch=t&cnabh=t&inat=r&cc=MNT and CA distribution: https://www.calflora.org/app/taxon?crn=13529
Monterey County Wildflowers: a Field Guide, Yeager and Mitchell, 2016, p. 110.
Flora of North America http://beta.floranorthamerica.org/Orobanche_uniflora_subsp._occidentalis
Along Glendora Ridge trail near Sunset peak
Western Pearlflower (Heterocodon rariflorum) Native, small, annual, rare plant in the Bellflower (Campanulaceae) family that grows in open areas at chaparral edges in seasonally wet soil. It is the only species in the genus Heterocodon. Stems are, thin, 5-30 cm long, simple, or branched from base, 4-angled, and sparsely hairy. Sepals are widely triangular, leaf-like, toothed, and 2-4 mm wide. Corolla is cylindric, tube is white to pale blue, lobes are purplish-blue. Peak bloom time: May. David Styer says he first discovered this plant on Fort Ord in 2016, and has only seen it in bloom one spring in 2017, and never since.
Flora of Fort Ord: Monterey County, California, David Styer, 2019, p. 82.
Jepson eFlora https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=28069
Plants of Monterey County: an Illustrated Field Key, 2nd edition, Matthews and Mitchell, 2015, pp. 120-121.
Monterey County Wildflowers: a Field Guide, Yeager and Mitchell, 2016 (species not listed)
Monterey County Wildflowers– a photographic guide (species not listed)
Is this the normal fruit? Bizarre
Hillside full of them! In an intact patch of stipa grassland with several other native forbs (t. laxa, wyethia angustifolia, chlorogalum pomeridianum, hemizonia congesta lutescens, etc), surrounded by invasive s and ATV scars
Maybe jepsonii?
Wetland habitat
Newly described taxon; see http://www.phytoneuron.net/2020Phytoneuron/01PhytoN-Erythranthehowaldiae.pdf
Growing in dense mats of moss over granite slopes. Type locality, beside SR108 at about 8180 feet (2493 m), Sierra Nevada, Mono County, California.
Appears to be phenotypic mutation/color morph of L. bicolor. Small patch of 10-20 individuals here all with this coloration.
Pod viewed from Point Pinos. My first from shore. Addy and Juni got to see them via spotting scope.
Appears to be L. arboreus and L. variicolor hybrid. Both species found nearby.
Appears to be the southern form of Calochortus argillosus, 100 miles north of its recorded range of the San Luis Obispo vicinity.
Growing in coastal dunes. Matches t. ssp. Arenaria, except white petals
Remote lake near 10,000ft, observed at least 15 individuals at this site. If anyone is studying this critically endangered frog, contact me for location details and data.
Patch of 15-20 individuals on east facing slope in gulch between heller drive and Kerr hall